Favorite electives

I would say my favorite elective so far would probably be my on-campus internship because I don't feel like it's just a waste of time. I feel like there's some electives that I've done that have to do with like sports or just different interests I have that I, it kind of takes away the fun out of it by being like having to go to class or having to do different things. It just kind of feels like a little waste of time, at least for me personally, but this on-campus internship you get real life experience with a real company and you have an opportunity to put your talents forth and kind of get advice back, you learn new skills, get to work with a team, things like that, so it's really cool.

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One of my favorite classes here is definitely the racquetball class, the beginner racquetball class. It's just so fun, it's just a blast. There's tons of great people in that class, super fun, learn a great sport, and if you get a racket you can go play whenever you want at the RB because it's free and like no one's there, so super great class.

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Favorite elective was definitely the snowboarding one over at Sundance. That was awesome. We had one instructor for about five of us who were learning. It was super fun. I went from not knowing how to even put on a snowboard to being able to not kill myself down a black diamond, which was great. And it has been super helpful. I even actually use it in my career. I work with the U.S. snowboarding team now. So funny enough, I'm wearing this shirt. And they are actually very impressed that I was in the fact I was able to keep up with the team and not make a fool out of myself. So anyway, that was definitely the favorite class.

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Right now I'm in tap class and I am not a dancer, but it is so much fun.

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Learn piano. It's fun and surprisingly easy. Like it's really the class I'm taking, like it's easy. Like you're able to, I don't really have too much background in playing piano, but you're able to learn, you know, step by step, piece by piece. And it's just super enjoyable time. Not that crazy of a workload at all. So it's a great, you know, class to get, you know, a spare elective in. Yeah, honestly really enjoyable time. And you can come out of it like just feeling really productive, which is really good. Just make sure your posture is good or else your back's gonna hurt for a while.

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One of the best electives out there is the web design elective. It's really useful, it's really fun, you get to make your own website. It's awesome!

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One that I thought was gonna be bad, but it has actually been one of my favorite electives, is this Introductory to Music class taught by, I forgot his name, but it's taught in the Marb, not Marb, it's taught in the Arby, but basically he just teach, like, takes you from, like, the origins of music from, like, the, like, the throat singing. Gregorian Chants, yes, that one, takes you from, like, the era of Gregorian Chants all the way up to, like, video game music or whatever. It sounds boring, but let me tell you, it's actually pretty interesting, super easy class, the tests are, like, super easy, like, easy A class, while also still being, like, mildly interesting, and it's only 50 minutes.

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My favorite elective? Entrepreneurship 101 with Corbin Church. I loved it because he has a really different teaching style and we learned a lot of lessons that are applicable to real life. He's also very inspiring and inspired me to start my own business.

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One class that I'm taking this semester is organ basics, as in the instrument, and it's something that I've wanted to do for a long time, to learn an organ, but there's really, it wasn't a way for me to do it at home because we didn't have access to an organ besides going to church every Sunday. So now being here with the music building and having 12 organs in one room and then being able to just practice over there and take up that opportunity, it's really great and it's a skill that I've wanted to develop and work on for a really long time. So definitely I'd recommend taking that class if you play piano and you're looking for something else to kind of expand that a little bit, it's a great opportunity to finally work on learning organ.

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I think to the day I die I will recommend this class to everyone who goes to BYU and it is Polynesian dance. I served my mission in Tahiti so I'm 100% biased because I learned how to do Polynesian dance there and I had lots of opportunities to watch Tahitians do it, but this class is really for everyone and it is just super fun. It's a really exciting way to learn about cultures that people don't know a lot about. You learn basics of the different Polynesian languages and the teacher is super duper fun. She's just a big joy and she just brings a lot of life and love to the class.

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One of my favorite electives that I've ever taken is Jiu-Jitsu. It's a small class. I'm not sure what the number is for a class, but it is a small class. It is really fun. They teach you, they teach you the basic Jiu-Jitsu moves, how to, I guess, defend yourself against different attacks and stuff like that. Yeah, like it can actually be very applicable for like self-defense or anything. If you take it during like winter or fall semester, they do have a little inter-class competition where you compete against other people from different sections. But yeah, it's really fun. You make, I had a lot of great friends that I made there. And yeah, I really recommend it. It's super fun.

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Okay, my favorite elective is probably children's literature. I'm in it right now and it's so fun because we just read picture books and that's our homework and it's so fun.

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My favorite elective that I've ever taken was a half credit, um, student, not student development. I can't remember what it, okay, whatever. It's called a golf, it was a golf class. It was a golf class I took with my husband in the summer and it was so fun because it got us to go to golf courses. My husband loves golf. It was fun for me and yeah, super easy too. So it was awesome.

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My favorite electives at BYU are slow classes. I've taken basketball, soccer, running, gymnastics, weights, and probably some others that I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's the best that you can stay active and fit and also get credit for it.

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I would say one of my favorite electives was taking some of the dance classes at BYU. There is a social dance 180. That's a pretty low effort, low commitment class, but you get to learn some basics of ballroom like waltz, foxtrot. It's a great way to meet people. I know that a lot of meet their significant others in that type of class. Outside of that, you can learn a little something and you don't have to have a super high level of dance. I just really like dancing so I enjoyed that class and I also enjoyed the hip-hop intro class. That was just half a term. That one was really enjoyable and you got to learn a lot of different styles of hip-hop.

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I remember taking self-defense when I was at BYU. Did it kind of as a joke, kind of as a class filler, but ended up really liking it. I learned a lot. It was kind of scary to learn how easy it is for people to, especially females, to be attacked, but I also felt empowered and I do think knowledge is power and it was actually super funny to have to practice and kind of reenact different scenarios. Anyway, I found it to be a really fun and helpful elective.

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I took an organ class while I was at BYU as an elective. It was so cool. I'm a piano player, so I'm super into that kind of stuff, but I actually don't know what it's like now because they tore down the old music building, but they used to have this room and it was just really small and it was full of organs along the wall and everyone just shows up. There's like 10 of you and you plug in your headphones and you sit there and you just play and you can only hear yourself and then like most of the class is learning pieces and passing them off. Your teacher will come around and like plug their headphones in so they can hear you play too and it's pretty fun. I really like that class a lot.

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Hey, one of my favorite luck tips over at BYU has been a French and Italian cinema class. You don't have to speak French or Italian, but it's super fun to, you just go watch movies and you analyze them after. It's super fun.

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My favorite elective is tips for doing homework and studying.

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Some of my favorite electives here at BYU have been my film class. I actually had to take that for an art credit and it's just a class where you get to watch movies weekly, learn about different styles of film, and then the final is just watching a movie and analyzing it. And so I found it was really fun and kind of a nice way to get away from reading all the time, instead just watching movies. I loved taking a racquetball class. Anything to kind of get my body moving was really fun and I'd never taken racquetball before and I had a lot of fun doing that. And then probably my favorite elective at BYU is an experience design class called Creating a Good Life. I think it's experience design 300 and it was such a great class because anyone can enroll in it and it just teaches you how to create a life that you're going to want to live and it helps you to progress and set goals and it was just a really fun class to be a part of.

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One of my favorite electives at BYU is called Healthy Sexuality and Marriage, and I took it from Dr. Shalom Levitt, and she is amazing. I feel like I learned so much that was so helpful for not just sexuality and marriage, but just for having a great and strong marriage in general. So that was one of my favorite classes. I believe it's SFL 376.

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I have a couple of recommendations. First, you can swap your science GE instead of taking physical sciences or whatever that one class is. You can do a combination of astronomy and dinosaurs, and I would highly recommend that one. To me, it was totally worth taking two classes to do it, just because it was way more fun. Dinosaurs, you get all sorts of outside field trips, and Dr. Britt is the most hilarious professor, so that was totally worth my while. And then social dance. I loved taking social dance, and all of those didn't have anything to do with my major, and yeah, I think you'd enjoy.

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One of my favorite electives at BYU is not one that you would think. It was a political philosophy class and I loved it so much, not because of the content, even though the content was pretty interesting, but because of the professor. He somehow found a way in every lecture to incorporate Taylor Swift, whether it was like talking about her dating life or I remember one day I walked into class and he had a music video playing that he somehow flawlessly wove into the curriculum that day. He was just that kind of guy. He just, he loved Taylor Swift. He loved fly fishing. He was just such an interesting professor that I loved the class. It was really fun.

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I really loved taking my Zumba class at BYU. It really forced me to exercise when I was not doing any exercise whatsoever besides the stairs that were south of campus and I also really loved my life planning and decision making class because it was just really fun and laid back and it was really great elective to take in comparison to some of the really hard frustrating ones. I've also really loved astronomy. That was one of my favorite classes and it was really cool being in the planetarium and learning about constellations and stuff.

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My favorite elective that I've taken is probably a scuba sort certifying course that was pretty awesome because not only was it just a fun way to spend one week night every single week but it also got me certified so then I could go scuba diving on a cruise that I went on recently so it was pretty sick.

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The cooking class in Home and Family Life ended up being one of my favorites because we got to cook all these different things, and then we got to take home all the extras, and we got to eat everything there for dinner. You didn't even have to pay for dinner because you ate it in class, and you learned how to cook things. I don't know what they're doing during COVID. Hopefully something awesome where you can try and eat all the food, but if not now, I'm sure they'll get back to it. Try that one. Judaism and the Gospel, Islam and the Gospel, and all of those courses kind of like that under the religion classes were so interesting. You learn a lot about the culture of the people in the Old Testament and New Testament, and it was really fascinating and really opened up my eyes to some of those New Testament and Old Testament passages that are hard. Those were really interesting classes.

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Honestly, I learned so much from this one elective. I had a professor, his name was, or I guess he was one of the people in the administrative building, Brother Allred or Mr. Allred, and he taught our University 101, the first year seminar class. And it was a one-credit class, but I learned so much from it. And honestly, there were some kids who just went there and wanted the easy A, or I guess an easier A, because it's only one credit, and then they didn't really too much into it. But I decided I was actually going to make the most of it, put a lot of time into it. And I learned so much about myself, about school, built some really good habits, and just being, it's a class about basically how to be a freshman at BYU. And so I would definitely take that if you're a freshman and looking for a class with good advice. Barry Allred, first year seminar, highly recommend it.

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Literally, any one of the dance classes at BYU, they are so fun. Like, world dance has been one of my favorite classes ever. You don't need to know anything about dancing, you're learning about cultures, and you're learning cool dances, it's a party. Also, I have loved every language class I took. I know they're intimidating because they're four planets and they're every day of the week, but they're so fun. And like, literally such a good time. And you're just immersed in the language for an hour every day of the week, and so you really actually learn quite a bit about the language. And they're usually like, fairly chill for being a four planet class, like there's usually not a whole ton of work, and you just learn the language, and it's really awesome.

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The first one is Sociology 112. It's called Current Social Problems. If you like to know the way the world works socially, and if you want to be informed on a lot of the hot button issues, that's a great one to take. Dr. Lopez teaches it at Tate Memorial. And then for a more specific one in that same area is Sociology 323, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity by Dr. Rue. Fantastic class. I think everybody should take that before they graduate. Definitely opens you up to a world that most people growing up in the church don't get to see a whole lot of. So really eye-opening classes, both of them.

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One of my favorite classes at BYU that I took so far is guitar class. It is so fun, it's easy to learn, and the professor, he's so nice, and all the classmates, they're really nice too. So I recommend taking guitar class at BYU.